Word: splendor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parent's mid-year lament: Unfair Harvard, my son hast thou thrust from thy gates And with curses surrendered him o'er From imperial splendor of Lowell House Hall To a lodging that's on a top floor. Oh what was the use of his ancestor's work, Of his father's bombastic degrees, In History, Gov., Economics, and Math Master Johnny's been taking...
Bette is enthralled by Leslie's dying splendor, because so far she has known only a primeval lump of brawn that plays football. And Leslie in turn looks wistfully upon her eager energy. But nothing would come of it all if it weren't for the entrance at this point of Duke Mantee (Humphrey Bogart), a savage killer who reminds the granddaddy in the picture of Billy the Kid and the other old-time desperadoes. The Duke imposes a reign on terror on the little roadhouse, and precipitates all sorts of emotional shifts, strains, and crises. Leslie decides that...
...Square was gay New Year's Eve. The University Theatre showed "In Person" and "Splendor" and standing room only prevailed after 8 o'clock. There was no midnight show, but there was one of those shorts in which, with much ringing of bells and to the tune of Auld Lang Syne the figures 1935 were swept away by Father Time's sickle and the figures 1936 gaily substituted...
...there was no lack of splendor for George II last week on his route home from London to Athens across Italy. The world's finest private train* has been provided by small Dictator Benito Mussolini for even smaller King Vittorio Emanuele III. As a matter of courtesy its sumptuosity and splendor were placed at the disposal of the new King...
...poem. On Aug. 1, his mother died. Next day one of his dearest friends was drowned. On Aug. 12, in the depths of despondency, he composed his "outrageous" will that carried its explicit provision for the "disposal of his carcass." He slept in an enormous bed decorated with Oriental splendor, kept four skulls by his writing desk, limped moodily about his dilapidated estate, plunged into dissipation with old school friends and pretty country girls. Six months later he made his first speech in the House of Lords, saw Childe Harold published, awoke one morning to find himself famed. The story...